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Eface -- The Fairhope single tax theory -- Background, organization and location of the Fairhope Industrial Association -- An inauspicious beginning -- Constitutional amendments and the first division among the colonists -- The first appraisement -- Suggestions and demands by the Chicago Single Tax Club, 1897 -- Initial provisions of public services and facilities -- Incorporation of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation -- "Do you see the cat?" -- Incorporation of the town of Fairhope; adjustments of the colony thereto -- Two Fairhope institutions: the People's Railroad and the School of Organic Education -- Adoption of the Somers system -- The Melville suit -- Attempts to neutralize the effects of the Florida boom -- The Single Tax Corporation supersedes th Single Tax Colony -- "Materially, the colony is doing well ..." -- Accessibility of Fairhope Single Tax Corporation land; som problems of policy -- Financial effects of limiting payment of property taxes for lessees -- An opions on the survival value of the Fairhop Single Tax Corporation -- Appendices -- Index

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